Digitizing, Preserving, and Providing Access to the Seattle Art Museum's Historic Video Collection

FAIN: PW-269332-20

Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA 98101-2003)
Traci Timmons (Project Director: July 2019 to April 2022)
Yueh-Lin Chen (Project Director: April 2022 to present)

The digitization of 3,000 audiovisual recordings that chronicle the Seattle Art Museum’s institutional history from the 1930s to the 2010s.

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) requests a Humanities Collection and Reference Resource Implementation Grant of $350,000 to digitize, preserve, and provide access to at-risk video assets in the museum’s Historic Media Collection, a collection of audio-visual materials of value to those studying art, artists, and architects of national and international importance, as well as those interested in the history of art and culture in the Pacific Northwest that spans the 1930s through today.